Google has been organising their summer of code for some years now. 'Students' propose a project which they should finish within a certain time frame. Every student gets guidance and help from a mentor. On august 16 the project should be finished.
I´ve looked at the projects that applied for a slot at the summer of code and found a lot of KDE related projects, lots of Python related projects and quite a few Gnome related projects. A little BSD here and there. All the participating organisations and the number of projects per organisation:
(this list is quite long):
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AbiWord: 5 projects
Apache Software Foundation: 40 projects
Apertium: 11 projects
ASCEND: 7 projects
Astrometry.net: 2 projects
Atomic Blue: 4 projects
Blender Foundation: 17 projects
BlueZ: 4 projects
Boost C++ Libraries: 10 projects
BRL-CAD: 2 projects
Buildbot: 2 projects
Catroid Project: 4 projects
Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan: 8 projects
CERN Virtual Machine (CernVM): 4 projects
CGAL - Computational Geometry Algorithms Library: 6 projects
CMUSphinx Speech Recognition Toolkit: 2 projects
Climate Code Foundation: 3 projects
Code for America: 9 projects
Computational Science and Engineering at TU Wien: 3 projects
Connexions: 2 projects
coreboot: 4 projects
Crystal Space: 6 projects
darktable: 1 projects
Debian Project: 9 projects
Digital Mars: 3 projects
Django Software Foundation: 4 projects
DokuWiki: 2 projects
DragonFly BSD: 6 projects
Drizzle: 5 projects
Drupal: 20 projects
DuraSpace: 6 projects
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Scala Team: 4 projects
Electronic Frontier Foundation/The Tor Project: 7 projects
Elgg: 3 projects
Etherboot Project: 2 projects
Evergreen Project: 2 projects
FFmpeg / Libav: 10 projects
FOSSASIA: 3 projects
FiberCorps: 4 projects
fluxbox: 2 projects
FreeBSD: 17 projects
FreedroidRPG: 4 projects
Freenet Project Inc: 1 projects
Freeseer video recording and streaming suite: 2 projects
freifunk: 10 projects
GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection: 7 projects
GNOME Project: 27 projects
GNU Image Manipulation Program: 5 projects
GNU Project: 10 projects
GStreamer: 5 projects
Genome Informatics: 3 projects
Gentoo Foundation: 15 projects
Gephi Consortium: 7 projects
Git: 5 projects
GnuCash Free Accounting Software: 3 projects
Google Open Source Programs Office: 3 projects
Grassroots DICOM: 2 projects
Haiku: 8 projects
haskell.org: 7 projects
Hedgewars Project: 2 projects
HelenOS group at Department of Distributed and Dependable Systems, Charles University in Prague: 3 projects
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology: 4 projects
Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher: 2 projects
illumos: 2 projects
Inclusive Design Institute (IDI): 11 projects
Inkscape: 4 projects
Interface Ecology Lab @ Texas A&M University: 4 projects
International GeoGebra Institute: 7 projects
International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility: 2 projects
Isabelle: 2 projects
Jato VM: 4 projects
Jikes RVM: 4 projects
Jitsi (SIP Communicator), Kamailio and SEMS: 4 projects
K-9 Mail: 4 projects
KDE: 51 projects
Kernel.org - the Linux Kernel Organization: 3 projects
Komodo OpenLab Inc.: 3 projects
LanguageTool: 2 projects
Learning Unlimited: 2 projects
LibreOffice: 7 projects
LimeSurvey: 4 projects
Liquid Galaxy Project: 3 projects
MINIX 3 Research group at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands: 4 projects
Mapnik: 3 projects
Marine Biological Laboratory - Center for Library and Informatics: 4 projects
Melange: 4 projects
MetaBrainz Foundation Inc.: 3 projects
Mixxx: 3 projects
MoinMoin: 4 projects
Mono Project: 13 projects
Moodle: 3 projects
Mozilla: 12 projects
NTP: 4 projects
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent): 8 projects
National Resource for Network Biology (GenMAPP, Cytoscape and WikiPathways): 10 projects
Natural User Interface Group: 6 projects
Nmap Security Scanner: 7 projects
OGRE - Open Source 3D Graphics Engine: 4 projects
OSGeo - Open Source Geospatial Foundation: 21 projects
Open Bioinformatics Foundation: 6 projects
Open Source Computer Vision Library (OpenCV): 11 projects
OpenICC Color Management: 2 projects
OpenImageIO: 3 projects
OpenIntents: 2 projects
OpenMRS: 16 projects
OpenNMS: 3 projects
OpenStreetMap: 3 projects
openSUSE Project: 16 projects
Openwall Project: 5 projects
Orange ? Data Mining Fruitful & Fun: 3 projects
Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL): 1 projects
Parrot Foundation: 7 projects
phpMyAdmin: 8 projects
Plan 9 from Bell Labs: 2 projects
Plone Foundation: 5 projects
Point Cloud Library (PCL): 11 projects
Portland State University: 11 projects
PostgreSQL Global Development Group: 7 projects
Processing: 2 projects
Python Software Foundation: 36 projects
QEMU.org: 6 projects
R Project for Statistical Computing: 15 projects
RTEMS Project: 8 projects
ReactOS: 5 projects
Review Board: 3 projects
Rockbox: 2 projects
SETI Institute: 2 projects
Sahana Software Foundation: 6 projects
Sakai Project: 4 projects
Samba: 5 projects
Scilab: 9 projects
Scribus Team: 2 projects
ScummVM: 2 projects
Selenium: 3 projects
Sencha Labs: 2 projects
Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox (Technical University Berlin / Max Planck Campus T?bingen): 5 projects
Simple DirectMedia Layer: 1 projects
StatusNet: 5 projects
Sunlight Labs: 1 projects
SymPy: 9 projects
TYPO3 Association: 6 projects
Tcl/Tk Community: 7 projects
The Battle for Wesnoth: 5 projects
The Codehaus: 6 projects
The Eclipse Foundation: 17 projects
The Fedora Project: 6 projects
The Gambit Project: 4 projects
The Globus Alliance: 9 projects
The Honeynet Project: 12 projects
The Java Pathfinder Team: 12 projects
The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure: 7 projects
The Linux Foundation: 13 projects
The MacPorts Project: 3 projects
The NetBSD Foundation: 9 projects
The Perl Foundation: 6 projects
Theoretical Biophysics @ Humboldt University: 3 projects
Tianocore: 4 projects
Umit Project: 8 projects
Universal Subtitles: 2 projects
Unknown Horizons: 3 projects
VideoLAN: 14 projects
Visualization Toolkit (VTK): 2 projects
Wikimedia Foundation: 8 projects
Wine: 5 projects
WordPress: 12 projects
WorldForge: 8 projects
wxWidgets: 4 projects
X.Org Foundation: 5 projects
XMMS2 - X-platform Music Multiplexing System 2: 4 projects
XMPP Standards Foundation: 5 projects
XWiki: 3 projects
Xapian Search Engine Library: 4 projects
Xen.org: 6 projects
Let's suppose a student would want to get a slot at google summer of code 2012. And that student would want to work on a FreeBASIC related project. What can a developer create within a timespan of 3 months that would help the development of the fbc? And who would we want to see working (as a 'student') on a fbc related project?
edit: cleaned up the list so it now only mentions the number of projects per organisation.